1. Give us the option to have embedded videos start at a defined point. You can do this in a link to Google Video by adding #1m25s to start the video at 1:25. But I'd like to be able to do that with embedded youtubes, so I don't have to post the embed and then add "The part I'm talking about is at 5:00" and then my users have to wait for it to load and scroll around to find 5:00.
2. Let us mark a video as "This doesn't need to be a video!" For example, today I found a video that was essentially a list of sentences. They appeared as text on the screen while irrelevant music played in the background. It was five minutes long, and I could have read it as text in 10 seconds. This is inappropriate use of the medium! Or, if you want to be more positive, how about letting us mark videos as "Transcription requested." Then the person who posted it or a friendly volunteer user could post the transcript in the comments, thus increasing googleability, helping viewers who have trouble hearing every word (poor sound quality, strange accents, lyric-deafness), and saving people having to sit through a five-minute video when a simple text list would do.
3. Or, barring that, how about a fast-forward button, so we could play the video at 2x or 4x speed to skim through and see if we want to actually watch it?
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